Reclaim Your City 693 | Audrey Danza

A staple component of Marcel Dettmann’s MDR imprint and Berghain’s Ostgut Ton, German legend Norman Nodge clocks in this week with a killer two-hour deluge of Indus-oriented barrage fire. Known for his laser-precise mixing and lethal selections, Nodge cuts a path of absolute dance floor devastation, pushing back the boundaries of techno as we know it through streams of gravity-defying rhythmic assault and leftfield-informed abstraction. The result is a torrential outpour of powerhouse machine funk, no-surrender techno brutalism and fiery analogue thunder. Dive into an orgiastic smorgasbord of ruthless uptempo churn, surgical technique and immersive cerebrality. Sleek, propulsive ride all the way, y’all aren’t ready for this one. Enjoy! 

Jumping onboard the RYC podcast series this week, Swiss-born, Berlin-based DJ and producer Audrey Danza steps up with a two-hour sonic feast fusing pure cross-dimensional propulsion with textured psychedelia, hi-intensity body jack and further afield tempi. Carving out a lane of her own through her record label, Proxima, where she experiments with eerie, esoteric electronics and more straightforward techno numbers, Audrey has cemented her position as one of the most unique and thrilling artists out there, constantly pushing back the boundaries of techno as we know it, emancipated from a false sense of tradition. Fun, effervescing, and engineered for relentless dance floor uplift, her work is a breath of pure, fresh air. 

David Sumner, alias DMO, alias VEX, member of Regis’ seminal Sandwell District collective, belongs to this category of legendary producers who withstood the test of time with durably impressive poise. The man behind some of Ostgut Ton, Tresor, Sandwell District, Stoor and his own imprint, Infrastructure New York’s most enlightening releases, has been dishing out game-changing releases one after the other. Championing a sound that swings the pendulum between pure groove cerebrality and superior functionality, Sumner creates mixes like one weaves tapestries, mastering the warps and wefts of rhythmic entanglement and the mind’s curious architecture like no other. Brace yourself for a wild, inspirational thriller of a mix. 

A new name to the scene on the cusp of big moves, Amsterdam’s 393AD punches in our weekly podcast series with a vengeance. Treating us to two hours of unrelenting kick and snare-powered assault, the Dutch producer leaves no stone unturned in his quest for the deadliest groove. Having recently gained momentum through a pair of records for Full Range Motion that went right for the jugular, the Amsterdam whiz continues his ascension unbothered, delivering yet another fine example of his abrasive and extremely dynamic style. Spirited material laid down with veteran expertise, it's 393AD inbound with the cyclonic frenzy. Don’t sleep. 

As we move closer to our third ever Saüle takeover on April 30, this week’s podcast comes courtesy of Dutch DJ Julie, who’ll be helming the decks alongside Costanza and fellow RYC alums Hitam and Ruben Ganev. Bringing her deft touch for agile techno cavalcades and deeply immersive buildups, Julie gives us a glimpse of the night to come: a set rife with hi-octane rollers and more intimate aesthetics, consistently complex and gripping throughout two hours spanning deep-diving dubs, post-industrial abstraction and further leftfield-oriented sonics. A much compelling peek into Julie's vibrant headspace, this mix shall give future attendees a taste of the storm to come, and absentees something to bite into. 

Actively pushing back the borders of techno language for the past fifteen years, German DJ and producer Thomas Hessler chose to relocate to Tbilisi, Georgia a few years ago and given the current state of the local scene, there is little wonder why. Tireless provider of equally hard-hitting and cerebral grooves that have taken him to play the best stages out there including Berghain, Fabric, Bassiani and Tresor, Hessler’s name has become synonymous with stunt-filled, hi-octane sets and productions that operate in the gap between kevlar-coated payload, mind-bending loops and raging sub-bass drive. Expect a fiery, laser-precise deluge of ultra-dynamic psychedelia and rattling machine funk. No surrender.

All the way from Colombia, Zemög turns up in our weekly podcast series with a vengeance. Explosive and sharp, this two-hour salvo summons a versatile array of floor-busting ordnance: from acid-soaked heaters to atmospheric escapology, through proto-techno chuggers and non-formulaic, abstract-leaning grooves. Boasting a deft hand for these full-immersion sorties into techno deep space, this mix swings the pendulum betwixt laser-like engineering and eerily synthetic emotion, beckoning us onto the path of total subjugation in a near-somnambular state. Channeling energies and brainwaves like a puppeteer, here’s Zemög with the trance-inducing hoodoo. Don’t sleep. 

Punching in with a two-hour round of deep sonic immersion, Rome-via-Berlin up-and-comer Costanza steps in to serve up a glimpse of her highly eclectic, boundary-pushing artistic headspace. Operating at the confines of atmospheric techno and further leftfield-leaning electronics, Costanza has been laying the foundation to a rivetingly profound body of work, extrapolating the functional requirements of dance floor maneuvering into the realm of pure sound-borne elevation. A true herald of techno quality expressing herself through stripped-down introspective pieces, here she goes with a deep, mesmeric dive into her ominous and highly intoxicating soundscapes. Blast it out loud. 

Up this week in our podcast series, Argentinian DJ and producer Pulso steps up with a two-hour ride spanning dark, brooding floor material and verbed-out oddities. Championing a sound both unremittingly abrasive and truly hypnotic, sitting at the junction of hard-hitting big room ballistics and abstract-leaning dub groovers, Pulso dishes out a masterclass in trippy, pulsating sonic tapestries. Wild rhythms and sci-fi-informed atmospheres coalesce in a furnace-hot environment, all set at triggering off the crowd’s most buried raving instincts. Expect a suspenseful workout of a set, rife with massive twists and turns. Fiery! 

Hailing from the lands of ‘Nordic swamp psychedelica’ as he likes to call it, Finnish DJ and producer Kaspiann fractures his way into our weekly podcast series with a special hour-and-a-half-long sonic rodeo spanning frosted hi-tech minimalistic architectures, playful polyrhythmic debauchery and further genre-unbound incursions into icy proto-futuristic territories. Unleashing a vibrant outpour of experimental-leaning rollers, jagged zero-G maneuvers and straight out effusive dubs from down deep, Kaspiann beckons us on the path of sheer multi-sensory abandon and inescapable full body & soul immersion throughout. Expect a deluge of heavily textured envelopes, polychromatic fractals and tribal folk-informed percussive hoodoo to wrap your ears around at various tempi and in various configurations. Monster versatility, monster execution, monster impact.